O'Rourke Hits Trump's Epstein-Clinton Retweet: Attacking Enemies w/ Unfounded Conspiracacy Theories

[highplainsdem]

Video at the link:


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/beto-orourke-hits-trumps-epstein-clinton-retweet-keeps-attacking-enemies-with-unfounded-conspiracies/

Beto O’Rourke said this morning that President Donald Trump sharing a “#ClintonBodyCount” conspiracy theory tweet is “another example of our president using this position of public trust to attack his political enemies with unfounded conspiracy theories.”

Jake Tapper opened today’s State of the Union calling out the president for sharing the “deranged” conspiracy and he asked the 2020 Democratic candidate for his response.

O’Rourke said Trump’s trying to “force you and me and all of us to focus on his bizarre behavior instead of the fact that we just lost 22 people in this community, nine people in Dayton, Ohio.”

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Regarding comments Trump made in the hospital, O’Rourke said, “For him then to focus on comparing political rallies or on himself or how much people love him just shows you how sick this guy is and how unfit for this office — he should be consoling people, bringing people together, focusing on their pain and improving their lives and instead he’s focused on himself.”

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[dchill]

1. William of Occam thinks there's a shorter way.

[Iliyah]

2. Tell it like it is Beto!

t-rump will never be president in my eyes. He is an abomination.

[MontanaMama]

3. If the MF is talking about an alleged Clinton body count

it is projection pure and simple.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Along those lines, if Spanky says Bill Clinton had Epstein killed.....

We can have our conspiracy theories, too, can't we?

[highplainsdem]

7. The tweet Trump retweeted was a reaction to #TrumpBodyCount trending.

Link to tweet

Of course, Trump admin official Lynne Patton, the former wedding planner and totally unqualified regional director for HUD in NY and NJ, had posted on Instagram that HRC was responsible within minutes of the news about Epstein's death breaking:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212366830

I'd assumed she'd cleared that with the Trump WH first, so I wasn't surprised to hear of Trump retweeting similar garbage.

[Princetonian]

5. "Attacking Enemies w/ Unfounded Conspiracacy Theories" is right out of Karl Rove's handbook.

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Sounds very familiar.

[Gothmog]

6. From AMJOY

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

8. "Force you and me and all of us to focus on his bizarre behavior instead of the fact"

That pretty much summarizes Donald Trump - sick and unfit.

[peggysue2]

9. This is a too, too obvious ploy from Trump & Co

Another shiny object to deflect attention away from El Paso and Dayton and even more so from the word 'racist'. In fact, I read a piece this morning at WAPO indicating that Trump is really disturbed by the racist branding, drives him crazy even though his words and actions can easily be labeled racist and bigoted.

Maybe it's this, too. Trump is smart enough to realize how toxic the word racist is, how it taints not only the person branded but anyone he/she associates with, as in donors, power brokers, political foot soldiers. So he and his enablers will do anything to change the subject, even throw out an absurd conspiracy theory to redirect the chatter. What better way to do that than involve the Clintons, replay the whole Vince Foster mania.

There is no low for Trump and his enablers. Think we need to remember that.

Cheers to Beto O'Rourke for calling this nonsense out.

[JI7]

10. Beto is calling out the entire bs of trump's existence

and refusing to normalize it .

[brer cat]

11. K&R

[Gothmog]

12. From CNN

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

13. Great answer

BTW Trump lied big time about Beto's El Paso rally

[BeckyDem]

14. I like this and his what the fuck to the press.

K&R

[Cha]

15. trump is Deranged. Everybody knows

that.

Good on Beto!

[MustLoveBeagles]

16. Beto has been on fire this week

[DeminPennswoods]

17. Yes, he has showed what a President should be and do

Of all the Dem candidates, he has been out front calling a spade, a spade and not mincing words contrasting Trump's American with the Idea of America.